Samuel Wade (@samuel_wade@mstdn.ca) is Executive Editor for CDT English, and is based in Vancouver.
An editorial in The Independent contrasts the banquets that greeted Li Keqiang on his visit to London with the conditions endured by missing human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng during an earlier incarceration: When the Chancellor,...
Read MoreLi Keqiang’s visit to the UK this week bore not only business deals amounting to £2.6 billion ($4 billion), but an agreement for two giant pandas to be sent to Edinburgh Zoo. From The Guardian: The pair of seven-year-old...
Read MoreZhongnanhai Blog (via Global Voices) picks up a discussion on Quora.com regarding the term “Communist China”; specifically, whether it is accurate and appropriate or, in Kaiser Kuo’s words, “contentious,...
Read MoreEvan Osnos’ Letter from China and the Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report blog both look at Chinese reactions to the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and several others in Arizona on Saturday....
Read MoreAt China Dialogue, Jiang Gaoming examines the role of human activity in last year’s deadly Zhouqu mudslide: Zhouqu county, in China’s north-western province of Gansu, was once known for its forests, rich water resources,...
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